Imagine arriving at school your first week as a ninth-grader and doing yoga - or tai chi or qigong - as the first activity of the day. Then, imagine getting to go outside to immerse yourself in nature for part of each afternoon, and having to use your imagination, because the school says you're supposed to. Next, each Friday morning, you participate in a sort of self-government, school-wide council meeting, before going off to make a difference in the world for the rest of the day through a … [Read more...]
Teaching the New Three Rs: Responsibility, Respect and Reaching Out
I've often wondered how I was blessed enough to have two children with autism. Friends and co-workers think I'm out of my mind to make my career working with special needs children, especially the greatly challenged ones. The fact of the matter is that these beautiful beings feed my soul. My belief that so many children with autism spectrum and other learning disabilities (such as ADD/ADHD and emotional behavior disorders) are here at this time because humanity is receiving a supercharged … [Read more...]
Honoring the Violet Generation: the Unexpected Psychics
During the twenty years or more that I have been a professional psychic and medium, I have had hundreds of men and women visit me, wishing to talk about their newly emerging psychic ability. Many times they are rather embarrassed or upset by this phenomenon. Often, they first notice it in the last third of their lives. The circumstances that prompt them to come to me are very different from person to person, but the effect is the same. Something has happened, a death perhaps, or a business … [Read more...]
Life is a Verb
Sometimes we get stuck in a rut, unable to move forward. It's as if there is a hidden room within our mind that we nestle up into, never fully realizing how much we could really use a little tug that shakes us loose and enables us to move forward in life with a new-found confidence and stability. This was a perfect opportunity for me, the observer, to step forward into the picture and shift awareness into a new plane of reality.There we were, my 12 year old son and I, walking into our quaint … [Read more...]
News from the edge
PEACE EVENTS"Peace Island Conference" & Minnesota Peace Team presence during RNC ConventionWhen the Republican National Convention descends on St. Paul during the first weekend of September, it will be accompanied by hordes of demonstrators protesting the Iraq War and other perceived injustices of the Bush administration. With the focus on opposition to the war and the possibility of police-demonstrator conflicts, two projects will be emphasizing a positive message of peace.Peace … [Read more...]
Wall-E is a Movie Experience for All Humanity
Wall-E is a completely original work of staggering, visionary genius. The film also possesses so many brilliant nuances and human insights, and has such a pure and gentle heart that it truly has no filmic antecedent. Wall-E is a robot, living alone (almost) on earth, cleaning up the trillions of pounds of trash left behind when humanity departed its uninhabitable planet. Wall-E's earth wasn't ravaged by either a war or a meteor. No, it was decimated by consumerism, greed, gluttony and … [Read more...]
Top 10 Tips for Healthy Road Tripping: Secrets of Staying Fit and Healthy while Vacationing
While gas prices may keep America closer to home this summer, people are still hitting the road to see the sights. But keep in mind that even though summer's here, it's still important to maintain exercise while on "vacation." Your metabolism never quits, and all of those extra calories looking back at you will either be converted into heat through exercise, or land plump on your backside. Here are my top 10 tips for maintaining good health while vacationing:1. Plan active vacations … [Read more...]
One Moment Changes Everything
Everybody loves a good story. The right story at the right time may have changed the way you look at the world or even altered the course of your life. Often, hearing someone else's story of overcoming difficulties inspires us to find the courage to overcome our own. I recently called Jimmy Kaercher, a longtime family friend and the editor of the newspaper in Ortonville, the western Minnesota town where my dad grew up. To my surprise, Jimmy, who was about to turn 78, told me he was in … [Read more...]
Five Tips for Swimming Successfully against Non-holistic Culture
We all encounter significantly influential people in our lifetime. They may not be the most intelligent or celebrities, but they have ways to affect your life positively. I would like to share five tips that I gained from people in my life to improve learning and to promote holistic living for all ages. Find your passionI met a taxi driver in Japan who occasionally pointed a plastic needle filled with some mysterious fluid into the small compartment next to his seat. I could not help but look at … [Read more...]
The Gems Within the Third and Fourth Dimensions
Many of us know or intuitively feel that we are transitioning from the third dimensional reality, passing through the fourth and on our way to the fifth dimension. Dimensions are not places, but levels of consciousness, each with its own unique ways of thinking and feeling. The third dimension operates within a specific set of rules and structures that hold many vibrations of thought and emotion. One of those vibrations is known as "fear." On our spiritual journey to fully experience … [Read more...]
Six Lessons You can Learn from a Horse
There are thousands of things you can learn from a horse. Here are six: How to reel in bigger clients How to be a great partner How to listen to yourself How to be the kind of leader people want to follow How to stop tolerating crap How to find a way to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro "Yeah, right," you say. But as soon as you try Equine Guided Coaching for yourself, you will have a life-changing lesson of your own you can add to the list. Horses are large and powerful … [Read more...]
Back to School
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward Each year, millions of children return to school to complete another year of education in their young lives. Some anxiously await the first day of school with eager anticipation while others face an annual dread of the entire process. From the earliest forms of learning such as the original home-schooling, then one-room schoolhouse, to modern trends of … [Read more...]
Journey to Wholeness through Relationship
"Relationships are work because they relate to creating a third entity and they are not about personal benefits." - Bernie Siegel, M.D. For more than 25 years, Pam and I have worked together on our relationship. From our first date, we seemed to share a deep connection. As the end of that date neared, we sat in my car, the street light illuminating our faces. We looked deeply into each other's eyes...not kissing, not talking, and yet there was a language of the soul occurring - a recognition. … [Read more...]
Another Look at Relationships
An excerpt from the book Loving Relationships II (Celestial Arts) The soul draws toward itself the circumstances and people it needs for its highest development. In the same way, our karma and vibrational patterns draw us to the very person we need to help us grow. In all our personal interactions, we must help each other develop love and kindness. A personal relationship is a sacred responsibility - it should not be based on physical, intellectual, or emotional attraction alone. Such a … [Read more...]
Creation Song
"In the Tree of Dreams, there is a song," Face in the Water said to me. She is a beautiful elder woman whose eyes reflect an ancient past, the tribal customs of her people. "Like any other living thing, the Tree of Dreams has a song to be sung. This song is to be listened for very, very carefully, for it teaches you that life is never ending. "The Tree of Dreams is you and me," she continued. "We are all a Tree of Dreams, filled with yearning, joy and love, filled with the teachings we have … [Read more...]
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